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One of the most popular pastors in America, Pastor Rick Warren, is grieving with his family after his son took his own life on Friday. Warren's brother-in-law called for prayers for the family, and said Warren and his wife are facing the news together. NBC's Diana Alvear reports.
The youngest son of Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life," has committed suicide, the evangelical pastor said in a letter to members of his church on Saturday.
Matthew Warren, the youngest son of Warren and his wife Kay, died after a long struggle with mental illness, according to the statement from Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif. The church asked for "everyone to join us in praying for the entire Warren family" on Saturday.
"At 27 years of age, Matthew was an incredibly kind, gentle and compassionate young man whose sweet spirit was encouragement and comfort to many," Saddleback Church said in the statement. "Unfortunately, he also suffered from mental illness resulting in deep depression and suicidal thoughts."
On his Facebook page Sunday, Rick Warren, said, "Kay and I are overwhelmed by your love, prayers, and kind words."
Matthew Warren was found dead of what appeared to be suicide by gunshot in his home in Mission Viejo, Calif., said Supervising Deputy Dan Aikin of the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's Department. The estimated time of death was 10 a.m. on Friday morning.
The sheriff's department was called to the home at about 5:15 p.m., Aikin told NBC News. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., talks with Kay and Rick Warren at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007.
Warren also wrote about his son's death in an emotional letter to his church, calling his son "an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man."
"No words can express the anguished grief we feel right now," Warren wrote in the letter. "He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He'd then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them."
"In spite of America's best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided," Warren wrote to church members. "Today, after a fun evening together with Kay and me, in a momentary wave of despair at his home, he took his life."
Warren delivered an invocation at President Barack Obama's first inauguration in January 2009.
In 2008, the Saddleback church sponsored a presidential forum with Barack Obama and John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it several days beforehand, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.
Pastor Rick Warren's son, 27, has committed suicide after struggling with mental illness for some time. Pastor Warren delivered the invocation at President Obama's 2008 inauguration. MSNBC's Craig Melvin reports.
- Rick Warren: Pastor in the political spotlight
- Rick Warren on updating 'Purpose Driven Life' for 2013
- Rick Warren on the same-sex marriage debate
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A Guide to the Benjamin Bartlett Cannon Journal and Family History, 1838-1846, 1924, 1999 [bulk 1846]
Biographical Note
Benjamin Bartlett Cannon was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, on March 13, 1801. The son of Zachariah and Elizabeth Edgar Cannon, Cannon was educated as a lawyer in Knox County. On April 3, 1828, Cannon married Eliza Tunnell, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Johnson Tunnell. The couple settled in Dallas, Tennessee, located in Hamilton County, where Cannon worked as an attorney, and as the Surveyor of the County from 1830 to 1837, and Clerk of the Circuit Court from 1838 to 1847.
From 1836 to 1837, Cannon served as Captain of a Company of the Tennessee Mounted Militia during the Sabine and Cherokee wars. He also served under General Nathaniel Smith as a Captain and U.S. Commissioner during the "Trail of Tears," the forcible relocation of many Native American nations.
Shortly after Texas entered statehood, Cannon traveled to Texas to find arable land he could purchase. A year later, he, his wife, and eight children left for Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas. Embarking by boat in April 1847, they arrived approximately two months later. Cannon's wife, Eliza, died on June 9, shortly after their arrival. On December 13, 1848, Cannon married his second wife, Charlotte Miller.
Cannon once again became involved in the socio-political conflicts in the region and began organizing a regiment to fight in the Mexican War. He was elected to serve in the Fourth and Fifth Texas legislatures representing Cherokee County. Although he still practiced law, he also operated a ferryboat on the Neches River and surveyed the land around Rusk.
As a member of Texas Masons, Cannon was appointed Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Texas. He continued to be involved in the Texas Masons until his death on September 8, 1859. He is buried alongside Eliza Tunnell Cannon in Rusk.
Handbook of Texas Online, s.v."Cannon, Benjamin Bartlett,"http://18.104.22.168/handbook/online/articles/CC/fcalc.html (accessed October 8, 2010).
Armstrong, Zella. The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga: Lookout Pub. Co., 1940.
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A 1999 transcript of a journal, family history, and correspondence comprises the Benjamin Bartlett Cannon Journal and Family History, 1838-1846, 1924, 1999 [bulk 1846]. The transcript of Cannon's 1846 journal documents his journey by riverboat from Hamilton County, Tennessee, to Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas. Cannon describes his interactions with his travel companions, weather conditions, cultivatable land, and the prices of various food items. Furthermore, he discusses visiting Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas, Texas. A detailed family history, an index of people mentioned in the journal, and transcripts of correspondence between Cannon family members dating to 1838 and 1924 are included.
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Discipline Tips from Drama Teachers
In the best Hollywood movies, classroom management can be as simple as a wardrobe change. Scene 1: Teacher wears neat white blouse. Kids walk all over her. Scene 2: Teacher returns in black leather jacket and steel-toed boots and students listen, rapt!
Not that easy? Still, there's something to be learned from those Tinseltown teachers, and it's this: Your classroom is your stage. And the people who know best how to use that stage to command attention and respect from their students have a lot of other ideas to share about classroom management.
Take a bow, drama teachers.
Walk this way, kids!
Remember how a jump-suited John Travolta transforms his shop class? "C'mon guys, this car could be a major piece of machinery," he says, leading his classmates in a neatly choreographed lesson in auto mechanics (and musicality).
"Why, it could be greased lightning!"
Wouldn't you like to have that kind of following? It's all about getting started right. When drama teachers walk into their classrooms, it's not as simple as, "Open your books to page 33, please." ("Miss! I don't have my book today." "Page what?") Instead, drama teachers start with a warm-up exercise that gets the mind and body ready to learn.
In a typical drama class, it might be a mind-body exercise like Keith Taylor's at Weaver Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina, where students lie on the stage in "constructive rest," knees bent, eyes shut, breathing deep, and running through voice articulation drills.
What? Won't work in math?
It's the principle that you need to adopt—"It really helps as a focusing tool," advises Taylor, president of the North Carolina Theater Educators. For something that'll work in any class, take a cue from veteran drama teacher Patsy Johns, former state teacher of the year in Nebraska. She starts class with rhythmic handclaps, which her students mimic, and then take turns leading the class in new rhythms.
"It captures focus in an unfocused world, encourages concentration, uses energy that might come out in disruptive ways, and it's fun," says Johns. Plus, while her students are engaged, she has time to take attendance or hand out work. "When I'm ready, they're ready."
Put me in, coach!
It's tempting to think of yourself as the sage on the stage. Lights, please! Right here! On meeee! But drama teachers rarely lecture—a little less Hamlet, a little more Jimmy Dugan, the cinematic coach from A League of Their Own who famously yells, "There's no crying in baseball!"
"Theater has taught me to approach teaching from a coaching standpoint," says Jennifer Foster, a fourth-year drama and speech teacher at Norman High School in Oklahoma. "Part of that is getting the material out and giving them the opportunity to practice. I firmly believe that they have to do whatever concepts we're teaching in order for them to retain information long-term."
In Johns' class, it means students may be moving independently through a variety of stations, reciting monologues to a wall, maybe working on stage. Just like basketball drills! "When a teacher steps into the activity, it's to 'coach' one-on-one with a student," she says. "They can raise a hand for help without drawing attention to themselves."
And, in Foster's class, it means more student-led activities—"the number-one thing that helps with student management," she says. Recently, her students wrote legislative bills and debated them. "I don't even start class; I put a schedule up on the wall that says who is the presiding officer, and I tack up an envelope that includes their checklist, timer, and everything they need. The students are a lot nicer to each other than they are to a teacher sometimes!"
There are no small roles
Theories of multiple intelligences have been popular in classrooms for some time—that is, there is no single intelligence, but many equally valid ways to learn, including visual, auditory, or kinesthetic.
"That's theater! That's the nature of theater right there. In theater, everybody has a different job: tech designers, costume designers, lighting," says M.J. Etua, past president of the Mississippi Theater Association and a drama teacher at Louisville High School. Each role is equally important and attracts different kinds of learners.
She thinks of a student who was always kind of a discipline problem: "Tuck in your shirt! Pay attention!" One day, they started drawing sets and "I saw the light bulb go off in his head," she recalls. Suddenly, powerfully engaged, "the next day, he got up to help the other students."
It's possible to do this—accommodate different learning styles—in any kind of classroom. Watch the kindergarten teacher who asks her students to bounce up and down to break words into syllables, or the history teacher who asks Roger Sherman to stand and speak for the Colonies, or the math teacher who passes out the old abacus.
Everyone's a critic!
What did the famous playwright and critic Oscar Wilde say about his own taste? "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
Your students might feel the same, if you ask them to assess each other's work, as is often done in drama classes. Etua regularly asks her students at Louisville High to peer-grade. "I call it a critique. I call it, 'Defend your ideas,'" she says. "As an artist, it's about process as much as product, and they have to explain their process."
You could also call it critical thinking, an essential skill for learning, she says. Her students might look at another student's staging and ask, "O.K., you've got this on your set, why?" They talk about the choices they've made and why. Along the same lines, the "critics" can't simply say, "I don't like this." They also have to explain themselves: "It was too long for the audience," or, "It doesn't make sense in the historic context."
This also gives them a sense of ownership of their own work. "You're really trying to build that confidence, whether it's in biology or history. You want for them to have the information and be able to tell somebody what they've learned," Etua says. "One of the basic things you have to teach is how to listen," says Greg Scot Mihalik, a young drama teacher at Nokomis High School in Maine, where he was nominated for state teacher of the year. Both performers and audience members—and peer graders—need to listen, he says.
When he asks students to assess each other, they start off with positive feedback before constructive criticism. (A little humor couldn't hurt either: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you," another pearl of wisdom from Wilde.)
Stage presence!
Enter, stage right: The Great Greg Scot Mihalik! [Applause, applause.] With a wave of his wand, he'll make that troublemaker disappear! And you won't even notice the sleight of hand that it requires.
Were it so simple. But Mihalik is an entertaining educator, even though he's a little squeamish about that specific word. "I hate to use the word entertaining because teachers might not like to call themselves entertainers but I do think we need to be engaging, and you do have to sell the material to the kids. 'It's going to be fun, and you're going to enjoy it!'"
Even if you don't want to don the black cape, you can use tricks of the stage to develop a more commanding presence in your classroom. "As a teacher, just like in theater, you have to gain control of your environment," Foster says.
Consider the use of lighting. When you "bring down the lights," Mihalik says, it suggests to your students that there's something important to listen to. Also, consider where you are in the classroom: Placement of characters means a lot on stage. If you're standing and somebody else is sitting, you have more power. "When I want the students to have equal power, when they're presenting, for example, I'll take a student desk," Foster says.
"I think it's amusing when people walk into the room and can't figure out where I am," Johns says. "I'm in the middle of the learning process, not at the front."
Also, consider your voice: "Bueller... Bueller... Bueller." Remember the movie scene with the terribly boring Ben Stein? "You want inflection and you want tone, but you also want it to seem natural," Foster says. "That's the ultimate goal in theater, that this is reality."
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Welcome to day two of the MyBrownBaby Fresh 2010 Gift Guide. I combed the web in search of goodies made and or sold by people of color and found THE BEST gifts—like dolls, stationery, jewelry, art, children's books, clothes, and beauty products you'll be proud to give to the favorite people on your list. Yesterday, I featured delicious treats for the little girls in your life. Next up: Great gifts for the little boys you love. Click on the headlines or the prices at the end of each listing to get to the online stores selling these precious goodies, all of which have the MyBrownBaby Fresh stamp of approval. Happy shopping!
Because what's better than setting the bar high for our boys? And how cute are these t-shirts anyway? Cocoa Babies has a bunch of great t-shirts for children with lots of positive messages; the logo that caught my eye was the one with "College Bound" written across the chest, but "Destined For Greatness" is adorable, too, as is the "Lil Brotha" bib (replete with the black fist), and the "Strong Black Man In the Making" onesie. Yessir! From $7.99, exclusively at Cocoa Babies.
And if you thought finding dolls that look like little black girls is hard, try getting your hands on a non-white action figure. I 'clare fo' sweet baby Jesus, I think it might be easier to find a black Santa in Vermont than a super hero/action figure with brown skin and African American features in a toy store. *church hand held high—and let the choir sang, "Amen."* But after an exhaustive search, I found one, doggonit! It's a 4-inch scale figure of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson in all his chocolatey goodness. He's got more than 20 points of movement for a wicked amount of posing options. Pair it with some imagination, and you've gotten the little boy in your life some maximum playtime. All day! $7.99 at Entertainment Earth.
I know, I know—here I am promoting toy guns. But dig this precious pearl I learned just yesterday: The Super Soaker, one of the most popular toy water guns in history, was invented by… wait on it… an African American rocket scientist named Dr. Lonnie Johnson. Which brings a whole 'nother meaning to the beauty of this baby, touted as the hugest air-powered water blaster in the super soaker arsenal. Pump the handle for a quick load from the large-capacity tank and use the tactical rail to line up shots—and remind the special boy in your life that he should thank Dr. Johnson, a man who looks just like him, for all the great waterpower. The Supersoaker Wars Shotblast Water Blaster - Red is $19.15 at Amazon.
I'm just saying—how fly would your brown boy be with one of these babies on his arm? I simply l-o-v-e Michele Verbeek's do-it-yourself jewelry designs, which allow you to create eye-grabbing masterpieces for even the most finicky wearers. Choose a manly-looking leather (the chocolate brown is delicious), accent it with a nickel, bronze or silver metal, and pick the perfect message and—voila!—you've got a hot cuff for the styling brown boy in your life. And Michelle is great: She works from any style you conjure up on your own, and gets them to you, speedy and easy-peasy. A Michele V. cuff with "Brown Boys Rule" would make the little guy love you long time. Custom cuffs from $18, at Michele Verbeeck.
Yes, I'm well aware that practically every little human being on the planet saw this flick when it was in theaters earlier this year, but Karate Kid, with the super cute Jaden Smith peeling back the black boy layers—tough as leather, but totally in need of love and hugs; bullied but determined to find strength; super cool but a total fish-out-of-water—is a movie every black boy should have in his DVD collection. The messages of love, acceptance, adversity, overcoming, strength, humility, discipline—all of these are wrapped up in this storyline in a way that we don't often get to see when it comes to children of color on the big screen. And did I mention that the lead character is an African American boy? 'Nuff said. The Karate Kid is $17.99 on Amazon
Buy several copies of this book and hand it out like candy to the brown boys in your life. So rare is a jewel like this middle grade novel, by Ruby & the Booker Boys author and MyBrownBaby favorite Derrick Barnes, that we as parents of brown babies need to do everything within our power to make We Could Be Brothers a bestseller so many more novels like it can follow. In this critically-acclaimed, fast-paced book, two 13-year-old African American boys become friends during a three-day stint in an after school suspension—punishment stemming from run-ins with the school's resident menace, Tariq Molten. During the three-day span, the boys bond over a multitude of subjects—from hip hop and black women to masculinity and the "N" word—and before long, the three boys are on a collision course, an intersection that will change their lives forever. "We Could Be Brothers" hits all the right notes, with themes that revolve around mentorship, brotherhood, and that old adage, "each one, teach one." Your brown boy will love this young adult literary masterpiece. And you'll love that he loves it! We Could Be Brothers is $12.95 on Amazon.
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Last June, the brother-in-law of reader Taylor was tragically killed in action while serving in Afghanistan. He had been due in September to return home and join Taylor in getting tattoos.
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HopeCollege will feature classical guitarist Ribert Gruca in performance on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
Gruca's work covers wide range of solo, chamber, and orchestral music from the classical guitar repertoire. In recent seasons he has played solo concerts in numerous venues throughout the United States, including in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York as well as Ontario, Canada. He has been described as a "wonderful and engaging performer" "bringing passion and artistry to his performance."
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Gruca studied with John Holmquist and Jason Vieaux at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he received a Master of Music degree. He is described by Vieaux as "one of the most talented guitarists" of his generation. Previous teachers include Brian Morris of Grand Valley State University and Roger Humphrey of Olivet College. He has participated in master classes with such prominent guitarists as David Russell, Lily Afshar, Judicael Perroy, Stephen Robinson, Sergio & Odair Assad, Hubert Kappel, Antigoni Goni, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
Tickets are $5 for the general public, with admission free for students 18 and under. Tickets are available at the HopeCollege ticket office located in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and may be called at (616) 395-7890. Tickets will also be available at the door.
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A somber ceremony was held at Northern Illinois University this afternoon marking the anniversary of the deadly campus shooting.
Bells tolled on campus at exactly 3 p.m., the time shots rang out inside Cole Hall five years ago to the day. Five people died and 21 were hurt when a gunman, a former student, opened fire.
Families of those victims laid wreaths at the memorial site bearing the names of their loved ones. The memorials theme is Forward Together, a theme consistent with the mood on campus.
The school's president made it clear there are lessons to be learned from the event and legacies never to be forgotten. President John Peters also said, "While they may not realize it, today's students are touched by the presence of those five students each and every day, because what happened at Cole Hall five years ago, forever changed Northern."
The student population present during the time of the 2008 shooting has since turned over. Hundreds of students present today were nowhere near Cole Hall when the campus became national news five years ago to the day.


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School bus transportation is typically the second biggest expenditure for school districts after salary and benefits. FHSD has used First Student (and its predecessor Laidlaw) to provide student transportation services for the District since 1999. The 2018-19 school year is the final year of the most recent two-year contract extension.
In an effort to identify possible cost savings and ensure the best service, the District determined that it would issue a formal Request for Proposals (RFP) for student transportation services this year rather than negotiate an additional contract extension. The District received proposals from Durham, First Student, and North American Central. All three proposals included a cost increase over the current contract, with the smallest increase an estimated $596,340 more in just the first year of the contract.
After careful analysis of the proposals, and following discussions with other school districts that have recently brought transportation services in-house, the District determined that it was possible to provide a higher level of transportation services and improve the average age of the bus fleet by not contracting out transportation services. FHSD administration made this recommendation to the Board of Education, and the Board voted unanimously to approve the proposal to bring bus transportation in-house at its November Board meeting.
FHSD will now begin the transition process. District administration believes it can accomplish this transition for the amount of the lowest bid, or potentially less. In addition to potential cost savings, Districts that have brought transportation in-house have also generally enjoyed higher levels of customer service, because all of the transportation staff are employees of the District and not a third party contractor.
The first step will be to hire a Director of Transportation Services. This individual will then direct the implementation of the in-house operations. Other important staffing needs that will have to be filled in the near term include additional human resources and payroll positions to support a staff of approximately 250 drivers, routers, aides, and mechanics.
The proposed timeline for implementation of in-house transportation services is modeled after that of other school districts that have made the transition and culminates in a planned "go live" date of July 1, 2019.


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Combining rigour and flexibility, MSP helps all organisations – public sector and private, large and small – achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. With change a pressing reality for all organisations, successful programme management has never been more vital to success. Organisations must respond as new processes or services are introduced, supplier relationships alter and structures adapt to market forces or legislation.
At the same time, all organisations strive to achieve excellence by improving practices, offering better services, preparing more effectively for the future and encouraging innovation. But change always creates new challenges and risks. Inevitably there will be interdependencies to manage and conflicting priorities to resolve as the organisation adapts not just to a new situation internally but to the constantly shifting world outside.
To enable organisations to manage their programmes successfully, they need a structured framework that does two things. It must acknowledge that every programme exists in its own context and demands unique interpretation. At the same time it must be universally applicable. MSP has been developed with these two priorities in mind. Its framework allows users to consistently manage a huge variety of programmes so that they deliver quality outcomes and lasting benefits. Fusing leadership with management best practice, MSP enables organisations to coordinate their key functions, develop a clear sense of unity and purpose and achieve the strategic cohesion necessary to drive through effective change.
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Foolproof Poached Eggs Recipe
Unraveling the mysteries of home cooking through science.
An easy, 100% foolproof method for cooking perfectly poached eggs with tight, clean whites and golden, liquid yolks, perfect for breakfast, brunch, or topping salads. Check out the video for more details.
Why It Works
- Straining eggs in a fine mesh strainer removes excess wispy, loose whites, creating tight, perfectly-shaped eggs.
- Poaching at a 180°F sub-simmer means fewer disturbances in the water, and cleaner, more tender cooking.
- Yield:Makes 4 poached eggs
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- 4 eggs
Bring a medium pot of water to a simmer, then reduce heat until it is barely quivering. It should register 180 to 190°F on an instant-read thermometer. Carefully break 1 egg into a small bowl, then tip into a fine mesh strainer. Carefully swirl egg around strainer, using your finger to rub off any excess loose egg whites that drop through. Gently tip egg into water. Swirl gently with a wooden spoon for 10 seconds, just until egg begins to set. Repeat straining and tipping with remaining eggs. Cook, swirling occasionally, until egg whites are fully set but yolks are still soft, about 4 minutes.
Carefully lift eggs from pot with a slotted spoon. Serve immediately, or transfer to a bowl of cold water and refrigerate for up to 2 days. To serve, transfer to a bowl of hot water and let reheat for 2 minutes. Serve immediately.


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Siemens CEO shakes up company to raise profits
FRANKFURT, Germany - German industrial equipment maker Siemens AG is launching a sweeping restructuring to raise profits and better compete with peers such as General Electric.
CEO Joe Kaeser is eliminating the sprawling company's four broad sectors overseeing its businesses, and will trim those business divisions from 16 to nine. Each division will get a profit margin target as Siemens aims to focus on fields where it can grow and earn the most.
Cutting out the sector level of management will reduce bureaucracy, cut costs and speed up decisions, the company says. Kaeser took over last year after previous CEO Peter Loescher missed several profit targets.
The revamp comes as Siemens is considering making an offer for the power generating business of France's Alstom, which has already received an offer from General Electric.
Kaeser was to lay out details Wednesday at a news conference in Berlin.
The restructuring announcement comes along with the release of what the company called a mixed earnings performance in the first three months of the year, the company's fiscal second quarter. Net profit rose 12 percent to 1.153 billion euros ($1.61 billion). But revenues fell 2 percent to 17.78 billion euros, and new orders slipped 13 percent to 18.43 billion euros. New orders are key to the company's future profits as it delivers large projects with long lead times.
Siemens, based in Munich, makes heavy machinery such as gas- and wind-powered turbines, trains, and medical imaging devices. Other businesses include factory automation and security equipment. It has 359,000 employees, 243,000 of them outside its German base.
The shakeup included a slew of other measures, including the acquisition of Rolls-Royce's gas turbine and compressor business for 950 million euros ($1.32 billion) as the company focuses on what it hopes will be a profitable sector. Siemens also announced it was forming a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to provide plants, products and services for the iron, steel and aluminum industries.
And it will also hold a stock-market offering for its hearing-aid business.
The company said it plans to increase the number of employee shareholders by 50 percent to over 200,000 to create what Kaeser called "a sustainable ownership culture" at the company.


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Dir: Corey Grant. US. 2012. 90mins
The Bigfoot movies – from family fun through to out-and-out horror – are a nice little cinematic niche sidebar that gets dusted off every few years before heading off into obscurity. Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes is an un-needed addition to the roster as its tries to replicate the style of the excellent Trollhunter with its faux found-footage tale of a band of LA filmmakers foolishly heading off into the wilds in search of the a Sasquatch.
These days such films need a clever twist or at the very least a dark sense of humour and clever characters to convince audiences that the filmmakers aren't simply going through the motions.
The film, which has had a limited West Coast release prior to its upcoming home entertainment (in truth its more natural home), is unlikely to thrill horror fans who has seen it all so many times before, though it could well crop up on cable channels and DVD labels internationally, though makes the mistake of not layering in enough sex and/or violence to please the late-night brigade.
Sean (Drew Rausch) smells a TV sensation when he and his modest crew – cameraman and best pal Darryl (Rich McDonald), ex-girlfriend producer-cum-New Age psychic Robyn (Ashley Wood) and geeky sound man Kevin (Noah Weisberg) – meet snarling mountain man Carl (Frank Ashmore). When his secure compound is attacked they are initially sceptical, but soon come to believe that big hairy beasties are to blame…and that the Bigfoot are after their blood.
Cue much running around in the woods, screaming and shaking camera shots (as we have come to expect with similar pretend found footage films), though we never get to see much of the actually hairy attackers.
These days such films need a clever twist or at the very least a dark sense of humour and clever characters to convince audiences that the filmmakers aren't simply going through the motions. Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes offers very little in the way of strong performances, shrewd characterisation or even horror thrills.
Production companies: New Breed Entertainment, Continental Media
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Producers: Chevez Frasier, Corey Grant, Chris Beal
Executive producers: Neil Harrington, Patrick Thomas, Rob Hunt, Eddie Booze, Albert Sandoval, Charlene Casterjon, Matthew Shreder, James Andrew Felts
Co-producers: Dawn Manning, Renee M. Todd
Screenplay: Bryan O'Cain, Brian Kelsey
Cinematography: Richard Vialet
Editor: Ralph Jean-Pierre
Production designer: Chris Davis
Music: Eddie Booze
Main cast: Drew Rausch, Rich McDonald, Ashley Wood, Noah Weisberg, Frank Ashmore, Rowdy Kelley, Japheth Gordon, Sweetie Sherrie


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NY Times
Nov 6, 2012
Mitt Romney has always had difficulty drawing a winning Electoral College hand. Even during his best period of polling, in the week or two after the first presidential debate in Denver, he never quite pulled ahead in the polling averages in Ohio and other states that would allow him to secure 270 electoral votes.
But the most recent set of polls suggest another problem for Mr. Romney, whose momentum in the polls stalled out in mid-October. Instead, it is President Obama who is making gains.
Among 12 national polls published on Monday, Mr. Obama led by an average of 1.6 percentage points. Perhaps more important is the trend in the surveys. On average, Mr. Obama gained 1.5 percentage points from the prior edition of the same polls, improving his standing in nine of the surveys while losing ground in just one.
Because these surveys had large sample sizes, the trend is both statistically and practically meaningful. Whether because of Hurricane Sandy, the relatively good economic news of late, or other factors, Mr. Obama appears to have gained ground in the closing days of the race.
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Here is what the IRS Operations Will Be During A Government Shutdown
If the federal government shuts down, IRS operations will be severely limited. However, the underlying tax law remains in effect, and all taxpayers should continue to meet their tax obligations as normal.
Individuals should keep filing their tax returns with the IRS and are required to do so by April 18 unless they obtain a six-month extension. The IRS will be accepting all tax returns. Once they've been accepted, the IRS will generally process and issue refunds for electronically filed individual returns.
Individuals are urged to file electronically, because most of these returns are processed automatically and should not be delayed. Because of limited IRS staffing, paper returns will be accepted, but will not be processed in the event of a government shutdown and taxpayers who file paper returns will experience a delay in receiving their refunds. Limited telephone customer service functions will remain available, but IRS walk-in taxpayer assistance centers will be closed.
While the government is closed, people with appointments related to examinations (audits), collection, Appeals or Taxpayer Advocate cases should assume their meetings are cancelled. IRS personnel will reschedule those meetings at a later date.
Here are some basic steps for taxpayers to follow in case of a governnment shutdown:
How Does This Affect Me? What Do I Do?
• You should continue to file and pay taxes as normal.
• The April 18, 2011, tax deadline for filing the 1040 series of tax returns remains in effect.
• Individuals filing the 1040 series of returns can still request a six-month filing extension to Oct. 17 by filing Form 4868. Taxpayers who request a filing extension must still make their tax payments by April 18, 2011.
• The quarterly estimated tax payment due April 18 is unchanged.
• All other tax deadlines remain in effect, including those covering individuals, corporations, partnerships and employers. The regular payroll tax deadlines remain in effect as well.
• You can file your tax return electronically or on paper –– although the processing of paper returns will be delayed until full government operations resume. Payments accompanying paper tax returns will still be accepted as the IRS receives them.
• Tax refunds for most electronically filed returns will continue to be issued. Because of limited IRS staffing, taxpayers who file paper returns will experience a delay in receiving their refunds.
• Tax software companies, tax practitioners and Free File remain available to assist with taxes.
• State tax deadlines are not impacted by the federal government shutdown.
What Will Happen At The IRS If The Government Shuts Down?
Only the most basic functions will remain operating in light of the critical April 18 filing deadline.
Operations Available
During the Government Shutdown
Tax processing operations are continuing at this time for electronically filed 1040 series tax returns.
Tax refunds will be issued as returns are processed, so most tax refunds for electronically filed returns will be issued. Taxpayers should expect longer than normal delays for paper filed tax refunds. IRS e-file and Free File remain the best way of getting tax refunds quickly and are unaffected by the government shutdown.
Tax deposits and payments are being processed, both for electronic and paper tax returns. Taxpayers should continue to make these payments as normal.
The IRS will continue accepting all tax returns during this period. In addition to individual e-file, business e-file will remain open as well and refunds for business e-filers will continue.
For individual taxpayers seeking assistance, the regular 800-829-1040 telephone line remains open. However, this line will not accept calls unrelated to individual tax issues, and taxpayers should anticipate much longer wait times. As an alternative, taxpayers are strongly encouraged to use www.IRS.gov.
The IRS website, www.IRS.gov, will remain available, although some interactive features may not be available. "Where's My Refund" will remain available on the IRS website for people to check on the status of their tax refunds.
If people have already filed their return and the IRS has started processing their tax return, they generally will see no delays in their refunds being issued. The best source for information will be checking "Where's My Refund" at www.IRS.gov.
The IRS Free File partners will continue to accept and file tax returns.
Tax software companies will continue to accept and file tax returns.
The IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) and the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) Programs will remain open in many locations to offer free tax help for taxpayers who qualify. Many Low-Income Taxpayer Clinics will remain open.
Many automated IRS notices will continue to be mailed.
Operations Closed
Or Unavailable During a Government Shutdown
(Partial Listing)
Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) where taxpayers walk-in for service will be closed. People with scheduled appointments during the government shutdown will have to reschedule.
While the government is closed, people with appointments related to examinations (audits), collection, Appeals or Taxpayer Advocate cases should assume their meetings are cancelled. IRS personnel will reschedule those meetings at a later date.
No live telephone assistance will be available for non-1040 series business taxpayers on the 800-829-4933 number.
No live telephone assistance will be available for exempt organizations, retirement plans administrators or governmental entities that use the 877-829-5500 number.
The phone number for victims of identity theft (800-908-4490) will not be available.
The IRS will not be working any paper correspondence during this period.
Most IRS legal counsel services will stop.
Information for Tax Practitioners
• The e-Help Desk will be available for e-file error reject code assistance only -- Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time.
• The Practitioner Priority Service line will not be available.
• Quick Alerts will be issued as necessary via the normal e-mail process.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Texas Clients of JK Harris & Co. to Get Refunds
The Texas Attorney General has settled a lawsuit with JK Harris & Co. See article here.
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The Dirty Dozen for 2011
The IRS has released the 2011 Dirty Dozen Tax Scams. See the release here.
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IRS Releases New Offer in Compromise Form
The IRS has released a new offer in compromise form for doubt as to collectibility. The new Form 656 can be found here. The offer in compromise booklet has a new Form 433-A (OIC) to be used soley for an offer.
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Can I use health insurance to pay for my visit?
Please visit our "Paying for Services" page for information about insurance and other payment options.
Are you wheelchair accessible?
Yes, CWHC's space is wheelchair accessible. When you call to schedule your visit, please let us know you are using a wheelchair, and we will let you know how to enter the building.
Are you a free clinic?
No, CWHC is not a free clinic and is not a government funded clinic. We do provide sliding scale fees. Read below for more information about our self-pay sliding scale fees. For more general information on payment procedures and options, click here.
Do you have sliding scale fees?
Yes. All of our services are offered on a sliding scale and will continue to be, even as we begin to accept insurance in the near future. Please visit our "Paying for Services" page for more information.
Do you do STI screening?
Yes, CWHC provides complete screening for sexually transmitted diseases/infections.
What kinds of birth control do you offer?
CWHC offers comprehensive birth control counseling. In addition, we can provide the following birth control methods: cervical cap, condoms (male and female), diaphragm, oral contraceptive pills, the Nuva Ring, the patch, the IUD and spermicidal gel. In addition we offer referrals for depo provera.
Do you offer emergency contraception?
Yes. Emergency contraception must be administered within 72 hours after the incident of unprotected intercourse.
Do you have evening or weekend appointments?
Yes, and all visits are offered by appointment only. We are generally open on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and occasional Saturdays. Please call to see what appointment slots we currently have available.
Do you do abortions?
CWHC is a pro-choice organization. We do not provide abortions at the health center but we provide referrals as requested. We offer pregnancy options counseling for our clients with referrals and complete information about abortion, adoption, and prenatal referrals.
Can I have my baby through the Health Center?
CWHC does not provide prenatal care. We did have a prenatal program from 1982-2002 but not longer provide this service. We have offered Childbirth Education classes in the past but have none scheduled currently, please check back for any changes.We offer referrals for prenatal care. Please call for more information about these referrals.
Can I walk in or be squeezed in for an appointment?
CWHC is not a walk-in clinic. We do require that our clients set an appointment with us. We will see clients on a squeeze in basis only for the following concerns: urinary tract infection and some pregnancy screening. Any client who chooses a squeeze in appointment should call first and must arrive at the health center at the beginning of a scheduled clinic (typically 9am, 1pm and 6pm). All squeeze in clients will wait in our waiting room until a health provider can see them. Please contact our gynecology department at 773-935-6126 before you come in to the clinic for a squeeze in appointment. No walk in or squeeze in appointments are available in our counseling program. A scheduled in-take appointment is required to begin counseling services.
Can I get therapy at CWHC?
CWHC does provide counseling services. Read more information about the counseling services we provide.


text: Don't know whether this discussion would be better here or on the email list. My searches haven't found a previous discussion on this topic - appologies if there was one. --- I find Ruby to very a very enjoyable language. My other liking is Python. Particularly enjoyable to me is how the Tab style indenting works. I find that not needing braces or "end" statements *dramatically* cuts down on the screen space occupied by code. Instead of 40 lines with 10 or 15 braces/"ends", I have 40 lines of full code. Nice. It reads easier and is easier to work with (my opinion.) I'm aware that there are many people who don't like the Python style and that is OK. I respect that. One of the things I have noticed about Ruby is that it accomodates different styles in a way that doesn't break anything and allows people to (within bounds) use what they like. My question for all is, why not create an option in Ruby that would allow the parser to accept code that used indentation instead of "end" statements? Would this be really all that hard? I, myself, couldn't do it, but I get the feeling that a relatively simple change to the parser would make it possible. Specifically, I would envision some code that goes before the current parser code that simply reads the file and uses the indentation levels to insert "end"s where needed. Then the code would continue on to the normal parser. All of this would be turned on/off with a switch or setting. Those who don't like it never need to use it. How about it? Does anybody think this is doable and are there others who would like to see it? chris


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Caves and Twins: The Idiot's Lantern
I think this episode may be the most forgettable of the modern Doctor Who. Certainly not worst, in fact it isn't really bad, but one that barely dented my conciousness at the time.
Indeed, I've frequently been unable to recall the actual tite. The Empty Faces? The Hungry Televisions? In actuality The Idiot's Lantern is a great title.
And all of the parts are impressive but I don't think they gel - and the pacing is very leisurely for the first two thirds (and benefits as a result) but then everything is resolved in a flash, leaving the valedictory 'gay son gains self-esteem' epilogue.
It's less than the sum, but it's better than Gatiss' next two efforts. After The Unquiet Dead it seems not unreasonable to ask what went wrong.
Some excellent little flourishes from Euros Lyn, using unusual angles and close-ups to good effect.
The encounters with faceless people are all spooky and odd.
The conceit of the Wire is quite nice and sometimes well-realised
I quite like all the 50s nonsense that the Doctor and Rose do and their interactions feel rather more Whoish here, rather than the horrid mutual admiration codependence displayed elsewhere in series two.
All the performances are good, even if Maureen Lipman overdoes it somewhat.
The BBC shows how well it can do period dressing and ambiance again.
I can't make head nor tail of the way the plot is resolved. Admittedly I wasn't glued to the set while it was on, but the Doctor pushes some buttons and something happens and everything is OK? (See also: Daleks In Manhattan).
The whole abusive father / gay son subplot never feels anything less than awkward.
Tennant being angry. I remember reading with disbelief that Ian Briggs thought Sylvester McCoy played 'angry' very well. I wonder if the same thought occurred to virtually everyone who wrote for Tennant. They're about as right as Briggs was.
The Geek Clique on Doctor Who – Season 3
Hmm, season 3. Weird one. I think some of these episodes are as good as the new Doctor Who ever got. It's got Moffatt's perfectly-formed masterpiece in Blink (arguably, controversially, the last great thing he's written for the series); it has the balls to go outside the box with Human Nature, which has lovely moments; it has New Blake's 7 with a masterful (I genuinely didn't intend that pun) reveal in Utopia; and it has something that's just mental in the form of Gridlock.
But it also has two two-parters that are just bloody awful. First we have Helen Raynor's risible Daleks In Manhattan (and can't you just imagine how RTD came up with that one - its title is a mission statement and brief rolled into one, clearly on the basis that it's funny or wacky) with a squawking showgirl, 'pig-slaves' (whatever you do never type that into an image search engine) and oh for God's sake I can't go on.
Then the Simm Master finale. This actually has some wonderful moments in it. Simm's thumbs-up to a dying cabinet minister's "You're insane!" is brilliant and he has other good moments but - whether its acting, scripting or direction - he's simply stupid in much of it. Eat your heart out Anthony Ainley, who at least was acting in a pantomime most of the time back in the 80s. And then the hideous shrivelled Doctor thing, which then turns into The Doctor as Jesus. The deification of the Doctor had been there for some time in RTD's scripts, but really.
The rest are - for me - utterly forgettable. I've never again watched 42, the Shakespeare one, Smith and Jones again - and I've only seen several others cos they happened to be on television at the time.
The Geek Clique - mostly new-series fans - largely gave this season the thumbs-down; not least because this season ends, as the previous two did, with the show-runner writing himself into a corner and then doing the only thing he could do - turn off the plot.
Poor Freema Agyeman also gets her fair share of criticism here. I don't think Freema was helped by the part of Martha and I think she has her fair share of very strong moments in the series. Still, Martha could hardly be thought of as a success - one wonders just how quickly RTD sketched out that character, one he never really seemed sure of - even if Freema is the most beautiful companion ever (and I include Anneke Wills and Mary Tamm in that, though I fancied most of the companions truth be told).
The Geek Clique (see season one and season two for an explanation of this weird gestalt entity) was not generally impressed. Was Who fatigue setting in? Tennant fatigue? Davies fatigue? This series scores an average of 4.2, which places it above series two but well below series one.
For me it's one of wild fluctuations in quality - we know that RTD found the pace of production very difficult and, frankly, this shows in a number of weaker episodes, which have to be carried by Tennant.
So, where does this leave my 33-33-33 split for season three? Pretty much intact actually:
Good - Gridlock, Blink, Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Utopia
Meh - Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, 42, The Lazarus Experiment
Shit - Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks, The Sound of Drums/Last of the Timelords
But will the Geek Clique agree? Did season three make us want to not blink. Or did we, er, want to teat out our brains and put them in Zeriods?
Simm! Jacobi! Toclthingies! Marf! Helen's Rayn'or Terror! New Adventures! The Angels! Cats! A run of four straight stories that were utter shit! It can only be season three of NuDoctor Who!
Season 3
This one is the most Meh season for me. It's not as offensively bad as season 4, true, but there's really nothing I felt any urge to watch again with the possible exception of Blink. Even more damningly, it's the first season of new Who for which I didn't buy the DVD Box Set: for completist nerds like us, that's surely a fairly big warning sign.
The season was a catalogue of missed opporunities and errors caused by RTD starting to believe his own hype and the hype surrounding Tennant.
On a recent cheap DVD-fuelled rewatch I skipped the Dalek one, Lazarus and fell a bit asleep during 42. Which is surprising given that it's based around a pub quiz.
There were some real standout stories - Human Nature, Blink, and apart from the finale and the dalek second episode there were none that were really poor. But it showed me that RTD's alternative to avoiding getting too dark (which he said was the failing of every long-running show) was to get too big. Far, Far too big.
I don't see any of the scripts for this year as being outstanding... I actually can't remember the vast majority of the stories in this season.
In terms of the stories I think the run from Human Nature to Utopia is very strong. Unfortunately there's also the run from the Daleks one to 42, which is utterly forgettable (see also: Shakespeare Code and Smith and Jones). And the final two-parter an absolute disaster; the second part perhaps the nadir of the whole series. Another series of radically fluctuating quality for me.
The first one was fun but inconsequential, the Shakespeare one was smug twaddle (and the scene in Bedlam in which the Doctor screams at the gaoler about his treatment of the inmates and then leaves without having even tried to change things sums up the problem with the tenth Doctor very nicely: he's all mouth and no trousers), I'd probably like "Gridlock" far less if I watched it again, the Dalek two parter was I thought rather nice in a slightly clumsy way until Jesus showed up at the end, and "The Lazarus Experiment" was a nice little filler episode let down by a stupid CGI monster (and, like most of the overtly Christian Series 3, is proof positive that RTD is the least atheistic atheist who ever lived).
Smith and Jones
Smith and Jones, while I enjoyed it at the time, is a first draft of the much-superior Partners in Crime.
The Shakespeare Code
[...of] the celebrity historicals, The Unquiet Dead wasn't bettered until Vincent & the Doctor. Shakespeare Code is perfectly servicable though, Harry Potter jokes and all.
Have come round to the position that Gridlock is conflicted in all the right places. A lovely little filmlet, that one.
How can a thing featuring both Doctor Who and a pub quiz make me fall asleep? I don't know. If anything you'd think it might even make me angry, given that Martha cheats.
Blink has a good concept but an appalling script. Like all Moffat scripts, the only voice the characters have is his.
Blink was one of the best episodes of the new era.
Human Nature / Family of Blood
Human Nature was anti-Doctor Who for me. The Doctor was cowardly and cruel. I hated it.
I didn't find Human Nature as good as other people obviously did.
I really don't get the love for Human Nature: the script is baggy, and some nice concepts are lost in yet another tiresome adventure for Captain Emo. Those scarecrows looked brilliant, and moved fantastically; they could have been the defining Who beastie for a generation, but who remembers them now? Frittered away, just like the concept of the Master would be later in the season.
Human Nature is bloody good.
The last ten minutes of Utopia was stunning (apart from that line reading) and really had me on the edge of my seat.
Utopia was actually amazing. Brilliant set up and an absolutely dreadful John Simm finale, with all the good undone by the two episodes that followed. Unfortunately it doesn't exist as a story in it's own right.
Utopia was like 70s Doctor Who. The guest star over-acting, an alien planet I don't care about, unthinking racism and dreadful direction. Bizarrely, I loved it, though. And was there ever a better break of the fourth wall in Doctor Who than when Jacobi said, "I ham the Master"?
I don't really get the mass love for Utopia and can only conclude it is because it is mostly set at night and has got a official "real famous Shakesperian Act-Or" (albeit not a very good one) in it. It felt very long, the Mad Max baddies were dull and Chan fucking Tho has to be the most awful Nu-Who character ever.
The Utopia love, for me, is based upon its precision-tooled raising of the dramatic tension from minute 1 to minute 45.
Sound of Drums / Last of the Timelords
The First part of the Simm two parter was fantastic, Simm clearly having a whale of a time and the Tocclafaines being fun new baddies. Then it all went to complete shit in the second part with magic jesus Doctor and all the rest.
I was definitely looking forward to the second part.
If I could vote for "The Sound of Drums" but not vote for "Last of the Time Lords" I would.
Both episodes deserve damnation for introducing the fucking Valiant. I have an issue with the modern day setting for stories. The global awareness of aliens and advanced technology like the Valiant make the world quite definitely not our own, despite the soap opera attempts to keep the characters grounded in our world. It's counter-productive. It undermines what should be the strength of present day set stories - the proverbial Yeti in a loo in Tooting Bec.
The point of the modern stories has to be the whole 'fuck, there could actually be a monster in the garden and I wouldn't know' thing. Otherwise what's it for?
Again, brilliant ideas (the Toclafane, the Paradox machine) chewed up and shat out to give Tennant the opportunity to look sad and do his thin-lipped, glistening-eyed biting back back emotion schtick. I honestly can't bring myself to think about Dobby the Messiah, let alone say anything.
Simm was fantastic. Her who played Mrs Master wasn't too shabby either. The regulars kept things together. And the Toclafane were one of the creepiest villains Doctor Who has ever faced.
But the story was somewhat less than the sum of its parts. A series of barely-related set-pieces, a huge FX budget, a sadistic way with the show's eponymous hero and a subplot involving domestic violence do not make for the best Doctor Who ever. It's been pointed out that, had the story been part of the original series, the Master would've ended up being betrayed by the Toclafane, joining forces with the Doctor and escaping whilst everybody's back is turned. But no, RTD had to wring more and more emotion out of his audience, had to make it all about life & death, had to up the ante one last time. And it didn't work. Arguably, it's never worked again .
...restraint might have spared us the Jones family's nigh totally vacuous onscreen humiliation, Freema lugging narrative weights that might've crushed lesser talents and obviously everybody's favourite detestable sight - floaty Doctor Jesus. But you can prise my Jacobi-Simm Master trilogy out of my cold dead etc.
The Tenth Doctor / David Tennant
Tennant really upped his game to compensate for the lack of charisma or chemistry in this series, and he is superb during a great deal of this, but even so, the Doctor needs a companion to keep things bubbling during the dull bits, and we just didn't have it.
I think the real mistake RTD made was that he cast an actor he knew could act anything - so RTD made him.
The Master / John Simm
The crowning nail up the urethra was Simms portrayl of the Master: given that this one was sold to us as very definitvely a reflection of the Doctor, it gives us a chilling glimpse into what RTD thinks the Doctor's USP is - but worse than that, of course, is the debasement of the character into a sociopathic Chuckle Brother with all the menace of the Grumbleweeds blasting out disco tunes.
I love the Simm Master - he even made Tennant's swansong watchable.
Martha Jones / Freema Agyeman
The biggest problem for me was Freema, gawd bless 'er. Easy on the eyes but, Christ, I trained with nomarks who had more acting talent than that.
Freema's acting by numbers sort of spoils most of the series for me - certainly Shakespeare and the finale. The others sort of spoil themselves. I'd probably watch all of them again without grimacing, apart from the Dalek one which was a good story, with just a really really bad idea.
Martha was a nice idea: as a professional, she could have been new Who's Liz Shaw. But instead she's wasted by being lumbered with yet another love story. And - let's be honest here - Freema, whilst easy on the eyes, could not act her way out of a Terry Nation plot.
Freema is no worse than Aldred or Tamm or Lane, and Martha is a breath of fresh air after the unbearable Rose, but the problem is partly that she is set up to fail and partly that Davies can't write women. Oh, he can do chavs (Rose), and chav harpies (Jackie), and comedy chav harpies (Donna), but if he can't copy a female character archetype off Paul Abbott then he hasn't a clue. Look at the preponderance of ludicrous ice maidens in his stories; look at the way in which middle and upper class women and black and ethnic minority women are given really, really awful dialogue, and then look at the RTD women who actually work. Neither Martha nor Freema ever stood a chance.
Freema's been bloody awful if in everything she's been in. At least Tamm could deliver lines without putting the wrong emphasis on the wrong words.
She's set up to fail from the very beginning: she's compared every five minutes to bloody Rose and found wanting. It's like the Fifth Doctor despising Turlough because he's not as special as Adric instead of despising him because he's a shifty ginger.
Freema can't act. It was like having a sexy Adric on screen. That took me a hell of a while to come to terms with.
I think she got a terrible rap with the part she had to play. I think she's OK during comic moments and seem to remember her being good in Utopia. Sarah Sutton can't act; Mathew Waterhouse can't act. Freema can act, she's just not especially good at it. But I'd say she's ahead, on average, against most old Who companions.
I just think that they made a mistake in the character of Martha and in the casting. They tried to paint her as a strong independent woman, whereas they more or less wrote her how Rose would have been in the Doctor hadn't fancied her.
Russell T Davies
There's just something about the Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords that strikes me as being the point at which Davies's confidence tipped over into being arrogance. After Doomsday, he shouldn't have tried to do a big series finale again for a while. Unfortunately he did, and his writing started to creak under the strain. Upping the ante continually made me lose a little interest - it's like the boy who cried wolf. This culminated in Moffat's bizarre "the Doctor really has died" obviously lying bollocks in 2011, but 2007 was when it started giving diminishing returns.
RTD has no idea how the world works or how people - except for very camp men and very brassy women, for whom he writes in exactly the same way in any case - talk. Never has done. I mean that.
I rather liked Season 3, the horrible '42' and 'The Shakespeare Code' excepted, and was pretty pleased with things until Episode 13 came along and more or less permanently fucked the RTD era up. But then, I maintain that Nu Who seasons are the antithesis of 'Trek' films in that the odd numbered ones are rather better. The bulk of seasons 2, 4 and 6 have been pretty well unwatchable (and, in the case of Season 6, I mostly didn't even try), whereas 1, 3 and 5 were mostly worth watching, if not necessarily worth watching twice.
RTD's strength lies in the fact that his stories make emotional sense. Unfortunately they make bugger all of any other kind of sense, and there aren't many actors who can carry off his brand of high octane emotion without looking like a tit. Eccleston could do it. Capaldi could do it. So could Tate (a bit) and Cribbens. Piper can't, Barrowman can't, and although Tennant pulled if off to start with having to watch him do the same wobbly lip followed by gritted teeth followed by shouting followed by sobbing schtick every week was unbearable. That's the trouble with soaps, though: if you keep upping the ante on suffering as an easy alternative to drama then sooner or later you have to bury somebody alive or steal their baby or have them come back from the dead for no good reason and it's always, always shit.
It reminds me a bit of the 'Xmas in Albert Square' thing - something that's become a joke because each Christmas needs to beat the previous one in terms of how ludicrously miserable it is (the funfair explosion one being my personal favourite). It's a matter of some astonishment that every Doctor Who series has essentially ended in this way - only much more so. To the point where 'how on Earth are they going to get out of this one?' is answered with a big fat reset - or the original narrative is demonstrated to be a lie.
And finally... (and possibly not seriously)
It is 2007, Iggy Pop is in the charts and Skegness declares itself a free democratic republic for three glorious weeks before the tanks roll in on the orders of one Margaret Thatcher. And on Television a strange little show called Doctor Who is preparing to broadcast one of the strangest and most cryptic shows of it's long run.
The episode shows three interracial romances ranging from the wholesome flirtation between Martha and Some Guy, the consensual sexual relationship between the mixed race human/pig man "Lazlo" and the chorus girl and the physical violation of the bloke in the two tone shoes by the "black" dalek Sec.
The first of these is presented as being utterly chaste and has no negative consequences for either character.
The second of these although wrapped up in a superficially sappy "love conquers all sentiment" is clearly tormented, secret and will require both parties abandoning their careers and giving up on any semblance of a normal life.
The third of these is presented utterly negatively; by consorting with the "black" dalek as a partner the bloke in the two tone shoes (and if that isn't straightforwardly obvious symbolism we might as well give up on the last 200 years of Western Critical tradition) ultimately surrenders his individual identity and is viciously absorbed into a miscegenated, vile inhuman creature.
So far so a straightforward story of middle class western fear of interacial relationships and black sexual potency.
But think about this; the Dalek Sec creature is ultimately potrayed positively. He is the only one who can lead the daleks "out of the darkness" and "into the light". His original scheme to "infect" the human subject (and it is surely no coincidence that these are mostly played by white actors) with Dalek DNA is replaced after his transmogmification with a subtler scheme to fuse the Dalek and the Human into one being, similiar to what he has become but at once greater; entierely Dalek and entierely human and greater than the sum of either parts. Just as Christ in Christian mysticism was entierely mortal and entierly god... or more appropriately given what we know of Doctor Who's alchemical nature entierley male and entierely female; a key symbol of alchemy and western msysticism. Further in this blurrirng of gender roles (in the first episode of Doctor Who written by a woman since it came back no less!) there is accomplished a key goal of third wave feminism that given Raynor's background we can only expect her to be steeped in.
Sacred Feminism and the Sacred Feminine in one easily digested bit of pop-culture. The promise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer realised in a superficially simple story of a Man in a Blue Box.
But it would be a mistake to see this as soft and cosily presented chocolate box mysticism. Sec's goals may be laudable but how does he accomplish them? By a vicious attack and violation of the man who thought he was his equal partner. Alesteir Crowley (one of the key figures in Doctor Who so far, cropping up in veiled forms in every season of the show's original run) held that the way to obtain mystic power and wisdom was through a ritual of violation. A symbolic act of rape that would free the seeker from the bounds of social convention.
Here the "black" dalek Sec violates a white partner and achieves mystic enlightenment freeing himself from his Dalek programming.
But there is something else going on here as well. In his exploitation of the native workers the bloke in the two tone shoes echoes the exploitation of the workers by the British Empire, the Daleks are explicitily colonialists, the story takes places in "New" York; one of the most famous and most ancient colonies of the British Empire.
...and also one of the first to throw off the Colonial yoke and establish it's own brash and distinct identity independent of it's colonial past. The famous melting pot where new cultures rub up against each other metaphorically and literally and strange synergies are created. As the British colonised New York and something strange and new was created so by colonising the bloke in the two tone shoes was Sec changed and something new created.
It is literally impossible at this point to argue that the show is not saying that the way for the metaphorical rape of colonialism to be overcome is through a mystic synthesis of the new and old into something else entierely. In a word; alchemy.
So there we have it. Post-Colonial Reaffirmation of an Alchemical Mystic Ideal and renunciation of conventional narratives of rape, interacial relationships and feminism all in a superficially simple story of Daleks in Manhattan.


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In the commotion surrounding the immediate real estate plans of LeBron James and, to a lesser extent, a supporting cosmos of NBA stars, it has gone politely unsaid that one of the summer production's principals is—and in fact has been—dead. Dwyane Wade is no longer a great or even very good NBA player, and every measure available to us says he won't be again.
This is the consensus among basically all NBA fans, and is gently addressed in a number of recent reports, like this from Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski...
[Teams] continue to make moves hoping James and Bosh look seriously at the free-agent market. ... The Suns can quickly shed $10 million more in contracts to pursue James and a second star – perhaps Bosh, if James wanted ... For now, Bosh has remained committed to finding a way to make things work in Miami, sources told Yahoo Sports
...or this from SB Nation's Tom Ziller, which presupposes drastic pay cuts for both Wade and Bosh and says that even then, Wade needs to drop even more:
Wade opted out of $42 million in guaranteed money to help keep LeBron in South Beach and add more talent to the Heat. But when LeBron and Riley sit down and look into the future, it may be the case that to pry that margin of error open enough to guarantee more rings Miami needs to get Wade to take even less ($8-9 million). Or, more drastically, say goodbye.
Wade has the numbers to back up a max deal, and if LeBron had never come to Miami, we'd probably be talking about Wade much like we talk about Carmelo Anthony. He's only a problem in the context of the Heat's limitations and needs.
Talk about "limitations" is a way of saying that despite their reputation among the population at large, there are very few vantages from which last year's Heat looked like a superteam even before San Antonio filleted them. In the regular season, Miami tied for fourth in point differential and was strong in offensive efficiency, but finished outside the top 10 in defensive efficiency. (In the playoffs they registered 108.7, a figure that would have rated 27th in the regular season.) The team shifted down on minutes for all of the core contributors and kept Dwyane on ice for most of the year, playing him just 54 games, but still disintegrated in the Finals. Clearly, they need help.
To that end, the Heat's big three opted out of their contracts this summer, in an attempt to give the team some flexibility. But as they're trying to put it back together—or figure out what comes after LeBron—they are likely seeing just how big a problem they have with Dwyane.
Wade opted out of a little less than $42 million over the next two seasons. So assuming that he has some sort of agreement with Miami, and that it's honored, any contract that makes it possible to put the band back together with a little help added in while also making Wade whole in some way will be crazy. (For the sake of this exercise, we'll assume that Wade is not going to simply donate money and years.) Non-max deals have the benefit of not being locked into rigid escalations, so we can thumbnail a bit. If he gets an average of the $9 million Ziller suggests over four years, for example, he'd still come out $6 million short of what he opted out of for two years. So, bare minimum, he needs to make $10.5 million per year over four years to break even, or $8.4 million over a five-year deal that pay him until he's 37—and that's if he's just donating years, which seems hopeful. If he's going to be paid the value of those two opted-out-of years plus even a very modest valuation on the last two years of a four-year deal—say, $5 million per season—that bumps those figures to $13 million over four years or $11 million over five (at $3 million for the final season). At those numbers, Wade can't possibly be anything other than a calamity.
How Bad It Looks For Wade
In the NBA, there are a few characteristics that allow a player to age gracefully: range on your jumper, size for your position, or a supernatural passing sense. If you've got one, you've got a chance; two, and you can play as long as you want. Vince Carter and Paul Pierce (size, range) are still playing at a high level; Boris Diaw (size, passing) just swung a Finals series; even a fundamentally washed up Tracy McGrady (size, passing, range) played good minutes for the Hawks a few years back. But Wade doesn't have any of those things. 1
That's nothing against Wade; he's been one of the best guards in the history of the league, with a career full of thrilling plays that have taken a toll. This is a look at just how high a cost that kind of brilliance has had on similar players.
Using Basketball Reference's Play Index, we narrowed down a group of comparable players—guards 6-foot-5 and under who by the age of 32 had played in at least 500 games while averaging at least five free throw attempts per game and a usage percent of at least 20. We're using these as proxies for the amount of physical punishment a player can and does take (free throws are indicative of both being athletic enough to get to the rim and the amount of times you've been hit) and workload (usage percent is the percentage of your team's plays you use; Wade has had some the highest usage seasons ever). It turns out that this is a quite specific type of player.
Of the 16 players who fit these criteria, five are current Hall of Famers, with Wade, Iverson, and Paul essentially locks, and all were All-Stars. As a whole, through age 32 (though not everyone made it that far), they averaged 20.4 points, 6.2 assists, and 4 rebounds per game on 46 percent shooting. It gets ugly in a hurry after that.
Shooting guards in general are not great late-career bets, but this group, in particular, aged disastrously. Excluding Chris Paul and Wade, only seven of 14 even played a game when they were 33, going 11.8, 3.5, and 2.7 in an average of 27 minutes in 46 games. For reference, in the age 32 season, which nine players played—Kevin Johnson and Sidney Moncrief both missed an entire season at 32 but returned to play the following year—this group averaged 18.8 points, 5.2 assists, and 3.4 rebounds, and played 34 minutes in 61.2 games. Wade averaged 19, 4.7, and 4.5 in 32.9 minutes and 54 games last year in his age-32 season, so it's not like he's shaping up to be a big outlier.
At 34, the dip continues. Two more players drop out, and the five that survive average 10.5, 3, and 2.2, playing 23.4 minutes in 49.5 games. That doesn't exactly sound like a player you'd be anxious to pay $13 million per year.
The Wade-comp group played in an average of 120.8 games after the age of 32. When we expanded our parameters to include guards who were taller and who took fewer free throws (min. 3.5 per game through age 32) and kept usage percent pinned at 20, that number jumped to 183.5. That's a difference of 62.7 games—almost a full season, or more if you're on Wade's 54-game plan—tacked onto the life of a high-usage guard just by virtue of being taller and taking fewer free throws.
All that said, it's not like Wade will necessarily shrivel up and die (more so than he already has) this coming season, or in the next few. He's already added that at times dreadful post game; according to Synergy Sports, he went low 14 percent of the time last season (compared to just 2 percent in 2007-08) and was sharp enough to rank in the 92nd percentile in the league in post-up efficiency. That post-up efficiency dropped by more than half in the playoffs, when he couldn't play rested every day, but it's at least something to build on. Kevin Pelton's WARP projection, based on his SCHOENE system, has a reasonably optimistic outlooks on Wade—though when Pelton adjusted for the minutes Wade played this year, the numbers deflated a bit. And just doing a cocktail-napkin, baseball-style projection, weighting the most recent season three times, the second-most twice, and the third-most once, Wade would project to 6.7 Win Shares next year, 6.2 the year after, and 5.7 and 5.2 the years after. Using the system we used to calculate LeBron's actual on-court worth, that would put Wade at $11.6, $10.7, $9.9, and $9 million per year—a total of $41.1 million over four years, or, remarkably, just about what Wade opted out of for the next two.
These numbers are artifacts of an unquestionable reality: Wade has been an orbital contributor, and not the team's fulcrum, for some time now, and any attempt to make him more than that just increases the risk he drops clean off the Earth, like the other players he most resembles did. If he isn't quite thought of in those terms, it's because there's an arc to these things, and Wade's reputation as an aloof shithead has a lot to do with being the diminished, humbled hero who has never actually been humbled. It's a lot easier to root for the guy throwing up every piece of junk he has left when he isn't walking around like he's still putting in 30 a night.
Wade can likely exist more or less comfortably in some complementary role, at least for a little while, which would work out just fine if he were in line to be paid as such. But his (implied) salary, like his broken body, is an artifact of the player he was. Whether or not he finally has to give that up depends entirely on what happens with LeBron, but what happens with LeBron will almost surely be affected in some large part by how ready Wade is to be paid more like a sixth man than a star.
1Nominally a shooting guard, Wade has existed as a de facto point guard for much of his career, and has racked up assist totals in line with that role and his usage—plenty of onlookers thought it might be Wade and not LeBron who initiated the offense when the Heat came together. But the players who have bucked this trend are the very, very best playmakers, like Magic, Stockton, or even Andre Miller.


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